Amazon Pulls Purchased E-Book Copies of 1984 and Animal Farm

Oracle Goddess writes "In a story just dripping with irony, Amazon Kindle owners awoke this morning to discover that 1984 and Animal Farm had mysteriously disappeared from their e-book readers. These were books that they had bought and paid for, and thought they owned. Apparently the publisher changed its mind about offering an electronic edition, and apparently Amazon, whose business lives and dies by publisher happiness, caved. It electronically deleted all books by George Orwell from people's Kindles and credited their accounts for the price. Amazon customer service may or may not have responded to queries by stating, 'We've always been at war with Eastasia.'"

Comments

Whatever The Party says

[acrobg]

...must be the complete truth. Or else the thought police will come get you.

For your convenience

[rlp]

The Kindle is now equipped with a memory hole.

Re:haha

[TheRon6]

buy real books and support real trees

If by "support" you mean "dismember and ground up," then yes.

Re:Stay away from the Kindle!

[ArsonSmith]

Error $DEITY undefined.

I'm atheist you insensitive clod.

Re:Not Big Brother.

[dgatwood]

plus the idea of a big Amazon woman is somewhat scarier than a big brother.

Obligatory Futurama reference: "Death by snoo snoo."

Re:Stay away from the Kindle!

[dgatwood]

Maybe I'm confused, but I thought the atheists defined it as an empty string, while the agnostics leave it in an undefined state.

Re:Not Big Brother.

[John Meacham]

Ah. the age old argument. The Future Will Be A Totalitarian Government Dystopia vs. The Future Will Be A Privatized Corporate Dystopia

Re:Not Big Brother.

[Minwee]

I heard a rumour once that there was a remake of Rollerball, but fortunately I was mistaken.

Along with other classic films like The Manchurian Candidate, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Ocean's Eleven, Psycho, The Shining, Death Race 2000 and even the Thunderbirds, I am happy to say that there was never a remake of Rollerball.

La la la la la...

Re:Stay away from the Kindle!

[genner]

Error $DEITY undefined.

I'm atheist you insensitive clod.

I thought atheists defined $DEITY as localhost.

Re:Not Big Brother.

[Stormwatch]

Indeed. I'm also glad that there were no sequels to The Matrix... too much potential to fuck it up entirely.

Re:Stay away from the Kindle!

[DavidD_CA]

So then for polytheists, would that be an array?

in newspeak

[Ralph Spoilsport]

On 17 07 2009, 12:57 PM, NYT column "Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others" thoughtcrime describes doubleplusgood Amazon goodthink protection of rightsholders interests in thoughtcrime prolefeed "1984" and "Animal Farm" by online rectify of Kindle Minitrue prolefeed device. Rightsholders have pubclear for said prolefeed, Amazon has noclear for publication. Amazon goodthink heroes send online rectify to all Kindle infected by thoughtcrime revs of 1984 and Animal Farm. Commendation from Minitrue to Amazon for goodthink online rectify. Increased chocolate supply and Victory Gin for all Amazon inner party execs and commendations to involved Amazon employees in online rectify solution.

All hail Big Brother.

RS